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First of all this is sort of a silly thing to do. If the user wants the text, they can use their browser's "View Source" and copy it from there or disable javascript and select the text in the normal fashion.

Ah, I see. I guess this is a case where making it a little harder does make a difference. Though this is what's known as anecdotal evidence. In order to really know, you would have to do a quote from each page each day and tally up the results. At the very least you would have to use the same quote each day, but that's less scientific.

I just noticed though that on the page you linked to in your first post that you haven't made the change yet. In Opera the drop down menu and the inputs are still disabled. But I can select the text! If I start my selection a little above and to the left of the poem I can select all or nearly all of it.

It's because that element is the HTML element (also known as the document), and is not included in your scripts. That may also be because the page is in quirks mode, it should be the body there I think and would be covered. Either way, the way to fix that is (remove the highlighted):

And now I'm wondering, when they do quote you, do they quote the entire poem, verse or whatever it is? If not, it's really a form of advertising. People will see the partial quote and search for the full text.

But if they're generally grabbing the entire poem you are probably better off doing what you're doing. You could make a hotlink available for each page though. That's just a link to the page itself. I think most browsers will automatically make such a link if an empty href is given:

Code:

<a href="">Hot Link</a>

Or you can just put the page's address there for the href. Using javascript: